In September 1992, Unicode had a problem on Unix. Storing characters as 16-bit values could introduce zero bytes that C programs mistook for string terminators. Earlier encodings had compatibility problems of their own. One evening, Ken Thompson and Rob Pike went to a diner in New Jersey. Thompson sketched a new encoding on a paper placemat. ASCII stayed exactly as it was. Other characters used multiple bytes, without accidentally introducing null bytes or Unix path separators. They went back to Bell Labs and started coding. By Friday, their Plan 9 operating system was running entirely on the new encoding. They called it UTF-8. Today, it powers over 99% of websites with known character encodings.

There are many ways to kill performance in a multithreaded program. My favorite one is false sharing, because you can get 10x performance just by moving some bytes around. So let's look into it. 00:00 - When multiple threads is not even faster 04:23 - CPU L1 cache primer 09:40 - Getting ALL the performance 15:35 - Looking at disassembler 20:29 - How to find cache line address 22:38 - false sharing in disassembly 25:00 - closing words

Tim's making a really important point here and I think people fundamentally misunderstand it. Let's paint a scenario. You are an indie developer and you want to make a game. Traditional game development will take you 1 year and cost you $200,000 in outsourcing costs to buy art, animation, and additional programming resources. AI assisted game development will take you 3 months and cost you $50,000 in credits + some additional resources. In a good scenario your game could make $200,000 and break even, but in many scenarios you mortgage your house and no one sees your game and you are out your savings. Now, with the anti-AI mania, Valve is forcing real economic harm on you because you get the equivalent of hate mobs at your door for your choice of tooling. Your economic viability is harmed because Valve chooses to put a label on you that generates negative attention. It makes your economics worse. Anti-AI proponents will point out that this proves their hate campaigns work. The appeal is not to them, because they are morons, but to developers to stand up to Valve and say remove these labels so that we can have livelihoods. And Valve makes money of you either way. Stand up for your rights, devs!

what the fuck is T&&... t like genuinely what the fuck is wrong with C++ programmers